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We will talk about santa and how its good to play make believe. Dh doesn't see a need for santa but I forsee some really difficult conservsation when she is in school and informs some other devastated child that there is no santa lol
i want her to know that it is good to pretend.
At first I was against the whole santa thing but then didn't want her to feel left out. Finally decided that honesty was a good way to go. Santa is real because we all pretend he is real and we pretend because its fun

I plan on doing it all; Santa, Rudolph, Frosty, the Nut Cracker and a Christmas story.(You'll shoot your eye out!!)

Also, that baby Jesus was born, nativity scene included. We'll probably go to midnight mass too. Then she'll go straight to bed and wake up to gifts that Santa left her. It's the only time a year where a kid can let their, faith, belief in Santa, the north-pole, flying reindeer all coincide. Why not let her live in a world where all these magical things exist at the same time. We live in a rather unfortunate ugly world at times and if I can make my baby girl's holiday season one she will always cherish, as I did mine, then I will have did my job as a parent-giving her a great childhood. We only get what? A good ten years or so of uncontaminated imagination until peers, family and media start filtering in all the "truths" & reality of the real world. To each his own but I say give them a great whimsical childhood, because as we all know, the rest of the time...life can suck!